Tactile guidance of prey capture in Etruscan shrews.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on October 23, 2006

Authors

Farzana Anjum1, Hendrik Turni, Paul G H Mulder, Johannes van der Burg, Michael Brecht

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Postbus 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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